End-gate slide.



C. SCHULZE.

END GATE SLID E.

APPLICATION FILED JULYI. I915.

1,180,324. Patented Apr. 25, 1916.

WITNESSES: ZA 7 Charles Schuize- I. B) W 8 M JZTTORJVEK err CHARLES SCHULZE, 0F GOLDEN EAGLE, ILLINOIS.

END-GATE SLIDE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES SoHULzn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Golden Eagle, in the county of Calhoun and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End-Grate Slides, of which the following isa full, clear,

and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in end-gate slides for wagons; and it consists in the novel features of construction more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out 11113116 claim.

The present invention is directed to end gate slides of ordinary wagons and has for its object, to provide a slide which, while subserving its function as a slide for the end gate, at the same time serves as a stifiener for the support of the side plank of a wagon, the slide being provided with means whereby the same may be secured to the rear end bottom cross sill or cleat of the wagon, thus dispensing with the usual strap by which the side plank is coupled to said cleat.

The advantages of the invention will be fully apparent from the detailed description thereof in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of an ordinary farm wagon showing my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is an enlarged end elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is an inner face elevation of one of the end-gate slides, and a vertical cross-section of the bottom end gate section 011 the line 33 of Fig. 2, the end-gate section thus out being partly broken away; Fig. 4 is a vertical crosssection of the end-gate slide shown in Fig. 3, with a portion of the end-gate in face elevation, the section being on the line 44 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3, showing a portion of the end gate dotted; and Fig. 6 is an inner face elevation on a smaller scale of the opposite or complementary end gate slide.

Referring to the drawings, 1, 1, represent the side plank sections of a wagon body, the upper section 1 being coupled to the lower section by strips 2 secured to the upper section passed through straps 3 on the lower section, the body having in addition the bottom transverse members or cleats 4, 4:, passed beneath the floor members or boards 5. The ends of the intermediate cleats 4 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1916.

Application filed July 1, 1915. Serial No. 37,534.

are connected by strips 5, through which and through the cleats are passed the lower ends of the braces 6 whose upper ends are securedto the straps 6 disposed vertically along the outer faces of the members 1, the lower ends of the straps being passed through the cleats at. The features referred to are well known in the art and require no further or detailed description.

Directing our attention now to the inven' tion proper, disposed along the inner faces at the rear ends of the side members or planks 1, 1, are channel members or endgate slides 7, the end-gate G sliding in the channel grooves or Ways a, each channel or slide being provided with side extensions,

flanges, or wings it through which the same is bolted to the side member 1, the lower terminal of the groove or way a being closed by a wall w through which is passed a bolt 8 anchoring said slide to the floor member 5 and to the rear cleat 4:. The wings h are connected to the flanges of the channels 7 by ribs 7*. Where the wagon has side extensions such as 1, the gate G is necessarily provided with slide extensions 7 positioned to form continuations of the slides 7, the gate extension G being inserted into the grooves ofthe channel slides 7 as clearly obvious from the drawings (Figs. 1, 2). The present invention however is more particularly concerned with the main or bottom slides 7.

One of the slides, to wit that on the left facing the reader (Fig. 2) is provided with a perforated lug t formed with the outer flange It, the slide on the right, on the other hand, having formed therewith a recessed lug 9. The perforation 0 in. the lug t registers with an opening 0 in the side 1 of the wagon (Fig. 5) the registering openings receiving an eyebolt 10 carrying a permanent nut n (Fig. 2) the eye of the bolt having secured thereto one end of a chain 11 whose opposite end is secured to the eye of an eyeslack of the chain 11 may be taken up and the gate G braced by the chain thus tightened or in tension, and the opposite side walls 1, 1, tied against outward pressure from within the Wagon.

It Will be seen that the slides 7 being bolted to the sides 1, 1, and to the bottom cleat 4-, combine the function of straps and slides, and separate straps on the order of the straps 6 required at the medial portion of the Wagon body are dispensed with in the region of the end-gate slides. Where the Wagon is provided with side extensions 1, and gate extensions G, the slide extensions 7 are likewise provided With perforated and recessed lugs t, 9, respectively for anchoring a chain (not shown) similar to the chain 11, should such chain be deemed necessary.

I may of course depart from the details here shown Without in any Wise departing from either the nature or spirit of my invention.

By recessing one of the lugs (9) it is apparent that the eye-bolt 10 may be instantly removed for purposes of detaching one end of the chain 11, the opposite eyebolt 10 not being disturbed.

Having described my invention What I claim is:

A channel end-gate slide comprising a grooved member provided with vertical side Wings or flanges, and terminating in a perforated Wall at the bottom of the groove, a perforated lug formed with. and projecting beyond the edge of one of the flanges, a sec- CHARLES SCHULZE.

Witnesses EMIL STAnnK, Jos. A. MICHEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G. 

